I love ebay. Look what I got for my desk at work. You are jealous, I can tell. All this for .01 BGP. Plus shipping. Lots of shipping. I might be able to melt small travel-sized candles on it, too. An office full of web developers starts to smell funny…

From a New York Observer Wedding Blog article on coloring your hair before the Big Day: I’ve been trying to perfect my hair color for over a year now. My natural color is sort of a “meh” librarian brown. In rebuttal, I direct you to this rainbow of librarian hair…

I’ve had two bikes stolen in my lifetime. One was due to stupidity (no lock), the other was stolen by a gang of 14-year-old bike thieves. After twelve years and three college towns, I’ve learned to appreciate a good bike lock. This one is my favorite ever. Just thought I…

I haven’t worked at a reference desk for almost ten years, but I still get reference questions. I’m convinced that Librarians and Library Workers have some sort of radiant askability that compels people to ask us stuff. Like this confused gentleman here: I’m looking for photos of ‘The Avengers’… Alas,…

This is the second sexy librarian costume I’ve found. One more and it’s officially a trend. This one is especially flattering. They call it a “Sexy Secretary” SLASH “Sexy Librarian” costume. Because as you know, the two jobs are interchangeable. Or at least the outfits seem to be. I love…

I called in sick to work today, with a sore throat and general upper-respiratory grossness. I spent the day lying on the couch with cats floating on pillows around me. Our two cats are huge wooly monsters. Rescued from cat-jail, they resemble bobcats more than housecats. Fortunately, they don’t seem…

Hee. One of the nifty things about having my library’s Animal Sound and Video collection available online, is I get to stumble across hilarious things in the course of my duties. Like this video of Mallard ducks doing a mating dance. Watching the ducks, I’m really reminded of this: Mah…

I’m heading out to my second day of Cornell Supervisor Training in a few minutes. We’ll be spending the entire day focusing on HR law. I anticipate a healthy round of “I’m not TOUCHING YOOOU!” from my coworkers afterward. Accompanied by jabbing index fingers. I’m speaking from experience here, folks.